Accountability

One of SURJ National’s shared values is “Accountability Through Collective Action.” For SURJ Nashville, this means having active relationships with and taking direction from the people-of-color-led (POC) organizations below. The goal of SURJ Nashville is not to produce good members of SURJ, but to train white people to engage well in multi-racial organizing spaces and handle our own learning in a way that does not further burden POC. We encourage SURJ Nashville members to engage in the work of our accountability partners alongside their work with SURJ. SURJ Nashville views itself as a transitional space, working towards a time when SURJ is no longer needed as a separate space to educate, outreach, and mobilize white people.

SURJ Nashville is accountable to the following local people-of-color-lead organizations:

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About Us

SURJ Nashville, a chapter of the national Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) network, is a group of individuals organizing white people for racial justice in Middle Tennessee. Through education, outreach, and mobilization, SURJ Nashville’s mission and purpose are: (1) to call white people into the work of unlearning racism and white supremacy that operates in personal attitudes and relationships; (2) to call white people into the work of divesting from and dismantling racism and white supremacy that operates within systems and institutions; (3) to create spaces of learning, accountability, and transformation for people seeking to engage in the work outlined above; and (4) to support local, statewide, regional, and national people of color (POC) led movements for racial and social justice.